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Minni Dreher - Löwenstein

Minni Dreher and her husband were old acquaintances of Otto Frank from Frankfurt am Main.

Person

  • Minni Dreher - Löwenstein
  • Born on: March 8, 1889
  • Born in: Frankfurt am Main, Duitsland
  • Died on: Jan. 10, 1943
  • Died in: Westerbork, Nederland

Minni Löwenstein married Albert Anton Dreher on 16 April 1913 in Frankfurt am Main.[1] She and her husband were both born in Frankfurt. She was 27 years younger than he was. On 2 September 1914, their son Anton Gustav was born.

According to the Gestapo, the family fled to Amsterdam on 12 March 1936.[2] On 6 September 1938, they were deprived of their deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit.[3] There they lived at 39 Michelangelostraat in Amsterdam. Until he went into hiding, Otto Frank had weekly contact with Dreher and his wife. All the office workers also knew Dreher.[4] Anne writes quite unkindly about him and his wife on several occasions. 25 September 1942 she writes: "Daddy has an old acquitance, Mr. Dreher, a man in his 70s, very hard of hearing, sick and poor and in addition he has a troublesome appendage a woman 27 years younger than he is, also poor, her arms and legs loaded with real an imitation bracelets and rings, left over from the good old days. This Mr. Dreher used to give Daddy quite a bit of trouble and I alays admired Daddy for the angelic patience with which he spoke to this pathetic old man on the telephone."[5] Both Dreher and his wife are imitated and ridiculed in the Secret Annex, like when Otto walked around in his smallclothes like old Mr. Dreher or put Mrs. Dreher's fur around his head.[6] It is not clear how the fur ended up in the Secret Annex. 

In December 1942, the Drehers were arrested and taken to Westerbork transit camp.[7] Minnie Dreher died in Westerbork hospital on 10 January 1943, and was buried 40 kilometers away at the Jewish cemetery in Assen on 12 January 1943.[8] Albert Anton Dreher was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz concentration camp on 23 January 1943, where his transport arrived on 26 January 1943. He was probably murdered immediately upon arrival at Auschwitz.[9]

Gustav Anton Dreher married Hanna Hendrika Rijghard, a Gentile Dutch woman, on 3 February 1942 in Doorn.[10] He was reportedly imprisoned in the Berlin-Moabit prison and the Wittenau sanatoria in Berlin from February to September 1943, and was deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on the “43rd transport".[2] Supposedly, he died during the deportation.[11]

Source personal data.[1]  Addresses: Willemsparkweg, Amsterdam (various house numbers, 1937-1941); Michelangelostraat 39 huis (1941-1942).[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart M. Löwenstein.
  2. a, b Stadt Frankfurt am Main - Stolperstein-Biographien im Westend: Dreher, Albert Anton, Anton Gustav und Minnie.
  3. ^ Hans Georg Lehmann & Michael Hepp (Einl.), Die Ausbürgerung deutscher Staatsangehöriger 1933 – 45 nach den im Reichsanzeiger veröffentlichten Listen. Band 1. Listen in chronologischer Reihenfolge, München: Saur, 1985, p. 74.
  4. ^ Familiearchief Anne Frank-Fonds, Bazel, Otto Frank, AFF_OtF_corr_13, Otto Frank aan S. Hummel, 23 augustus 1945.
  5. ^ Anne Frank, Version B, 25 September 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  6. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 7 October (1st) and 30 September 1942, in: The Collected Works.
  7. ^ Joods Monument: Albert Anton Dreher.
  8. ^ Joods Monument: Minni Dreher-Löwenstein
  9. ^ Bundesarchiv - Gedenkbuch: Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933 - 1945: Dreher, Albert Anton.
  10. ^ Joods Monument: Anton Gustav Dreher.
  11. ^ Bundesarchiv - Gedenkbuch: Dreher, Anton Gustav.